Posted on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
BI Becomes the Jewel in SOA’s Crown
CIO
What’s actually driving this recent M&A(mergers and acquisitions) activity is growing vendor recognition that BI is the crown jewel in any comprehensive service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution portfolio. Though Oracle and SAP (and, to a lesser degree, IBM) already had decent BI wares in their respective SOA portfolios, none of them were on any enterprise’s short list of name-brand BI solution providers — until, that is, each of them decided to grab a leading BI pure play.
